He hurled invective at supposed leakers within the administration after New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza tweeted, citing "a senior White House Official," that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and former Fox News executive Bill Shine.

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The tweets prompted a furious Scaramucci to call Lizza — and go on a tirade against administration officials whom he believes are responsible for leaking information about the dinner, and also his publicly available financial disclosures.

Scaramucci threatened to fire his staff when Lizza refused to reveal his source.

"What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," he said.

"O.K., I'm going to fire every one of them, and then you haven't protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks," he continued, after he failed to persuade Lizza to speak up.

"I'm not trying to build my own brand off the f--king strength of the President. I'm here to serve the country."

Scaramucci said he suspects Priebus of the leak after he also accused him of leaking his financial disclosures.

"In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45."

The tweet went viral before he deleted it two hours later.

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Preibus, left, and Bannon were the two targets of Scaramucci's attacks. (Getty Images; EPA)

He posted a new tweet denying that he was calling Priebus, Trump's chief of staff, the source of the leak.

"Wrong!" he said along with a screenshot of an Axios article that said, "Scaramucci appears to want Priebus investigated by FBI." "Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks @Reince45."

Scaramucci called Lizza again as he appeared on CNN, claiming he had tagged Priebus in the original tweet so that the pair could work together to identify leakers within the administration.

"He's the chief of staff, he's responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I put that tweet out last night," Scaramucci said.

He said media misinterpreted his tweet because "journalists know who the leakers are."

"So, if Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that."

Scaramucci tweeted Thursday after his initial conversation with Lizza wad made public, saying, "I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda. #MAGA."